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CIRCULAR. 


QCABTEEMASTER   GeNKRAL's    OfFICB, 

Richmond,  August  2Gth,  1864. 
The  following  rules  are  adopted  for  the  payment  of  all  men  detailed  from 
the  Army  or  by  the  Bureau  of  Conscription  for  service  in  this  Department 
at  Posts  and  Depots : 

I.  All  such  detailed  men  shall  receive  their  monthly  pay,  rations,  clothing, 
and  quarters,  or  commutation  thereof,  at  prescribed  rates,  and  one  Dollar  per 
day,  extra-duty  pay  proper,  for  each  day's  service  actually  performed  by 
them. 

II.  In  addition  thereto,  the  following  extra  compensation  for  extraordinary 
labor,  skill  or  industry,  shall  be  paid  for  each  day's  service  actually  per- 
formed, viz  : 

For  Clerks— Ist  Class— in  the  City  of  Richmond        .        $3  00  per  day. 
"  2nd    *•  "  «'  "  .  2  00  ~    " 

"  Ist      "        elsewhere   .  .  .  2  00        " 

2nd     "  "  .  .  .  1  00        " 

Provided,  That  when  any  Detailed  Clerk  receives  his  allowance  in  kind  (as 
at  hospital)  he  shall  receive  only  twenty-five  cents  per  day,  and  mo  more, 
either  as  extra-duty  pay  or  additional  compensation. 

For  Mechanics  and  Laborers  detailed  as  above,  officers  in  charge  of  them 
will  proceed  without  delay  to  fix  the  rate  of  extra  compensation  for  extraor- 
dinary skill,  labor  and  industry  ;  classifying  them  as  prescribed  in  General 
Order  No.  66,  specifying  the  number  of  men,  nature  ofVrvice,  number  of 
working  hours  per  day,  having  special  reference  in  fixing  the  compensation 
to  Sections  2nd  and  15th  of  said  General  Order— said  recommendation  to  be 
forwarded  through  the  Chief  Quartermaster  or  other  oflicer  to  this  Bureau 
for  approval  of  the  Secretary  of  War. 

III.  Commutation  i»  allowed  at  $20  per  month  for  one  room  in  lieu  of  com- 
mutation of  fuel,  quarters  and  straw,  for  all  Posts  and  Depots  except  Rich- 
mond;  and  on  each  voucher  the  ofljcer  to  whom  the  detailed  man  reports 
ehall  certify  that  no  quarters  are  received  by  him  in  kind. 

IV.  These  rates  are  to  take  eflect  from  the  1st  of  August,  1864,  and  will 
be  held  applicable  to  all  detailed  men  of  other  Bureaux  and  Odices  which  do 
not  pay  their  detailed  men  for  want  of  appropriation,  or  which  have  not 
prescribed  rates. 

(Signed) 

A.  R.  LAWTON, 

Qiiarlcrmatter   Oeneral. 


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